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God Loves Us. God Loves Us. God Loves Us.

“For you love all things that exist and detest none of the things that you have made, for you would not have made anything if you hated it.” - Wisdom 11:24

Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 31

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How Change Comes

“Perseverance is not a long race; it’s many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot

When looking at the problems we face, it’s easy to become overwhelmed like the children at the end of the book “Cat in the Hat”

We feel like the mess around us is ‘so deep, and so wide, and so far and so tall, there’s no way we can clean at all.’ And we end up giving up.

I often felt that way serving in a poor community in Jackson, Mississippi. The disparities in access to healthcare, nutrition, education, transportation and even at times drinking water.

But coming together with other good people working together across race, class, religion and partisan politics, with organizations such as Working Together Jackson and Working Together Mississippi we were able to make incremental change.

We picked one small part of the problem, worked on it, and then worked on the next, in succession. Together we expanded healthcare access for women and children, fixed some of the roads, saw a failing school district improve and took down the Confederate Flag.

Not all at once, but one after another continuously striving, persevering through setbacks and disappointment.

That’s how change comes.

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Teach Us What Justice Means

“Justice is what love looks like in public.” - Cornel West

Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 30

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What is being fulfilled through us?

“Then he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." - Luke 4:21

For those not immediately familiar with the passage, this section of Luke is considered to be the beginning of Jesus’s public ministry.

Just prior, Jesus read these words and claimed them as his mission and purpose:

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” (Luke quoting Isaiah)

The Spirit of the Lord upon and within him, inspired Jesus to take up this mission and to fulfill, to live out this purpose.

What is the Spirit of God upon, within, and among us fulfilling through us?

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Love Empowers Us to Overcome

“Two Truths: Nothing can separate us from the love of God, and God’s love empowers us to overcome.” (Based on Romans 8)

Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 29

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Stay in the Fight!

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” - Galatians 6:9

I know some of us are tired, dejected, frustrated and disappointed. We have experienced setbacks and loss.

I did not anticipate that we’d still be fighting some of the battles we currently face.

I envisioned a world where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, a world in which no one was without access to the basic necessities. I anticipated a world where everyone was given the opportunity to reach their fullest potential.

We don’t currently live in that world. Some would argue that we never have. But that doesn’t matter. Because that’s the world we been called to create, the world we been called to participate in making.

So get up. Stay in the fight. Believe that in due season the world as it should be will one day be the world as it is.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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What Does Love Look Like?

“What does love look like? It has hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has ears ti hear the sighs and sorrows of men…” - Augustine

Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 28

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We don’t know God, but God knows us.

“For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.” - 1 Corinthians 13:12

We are like tea cups in the ocean. The ocean will completely fill and surround the cup, and know everything about it. Yet the cup’s knowledge of the ocean, though real and significant is barely a fraction of the ocean’s scale and scope.

Paul started his spiritual journey with arrogance and pride. He was a student who had studied with the best teachers and excelled. He was a practitioner of his religion who kept all the customs and traditions. He thought he knew.

His arrogance led him to doing unspeakable harm to those who did not understand or practice as he did.

His breakthrough came when he embraced humility, understanding that though he had experienced a lot, there was far more about life and God that he’d never fully understand, that he himself needed to be taught.

Paul came to understand that though he’d never fully know God, God fully knew and loved him. And that was enough.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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